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Here's a preview of the new Green Lantern: New Guardians #1 out this week from DC Comics, courtesy of Newsarama, followed by a preview of Batman: The Dark Knight #1 from Champion! And yes, the following was in the iPad comic magazine Champion! a wee while back, but now that Dark Knight is[...]

The other week, Marvel made a great play that the digital release of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, had broken their first-day digital sales record Though they weren't giving any numbers away But then they never have. David Gabriel was quoted as saying "We've been doing the day and date comics for about a year now since[...]

IDW has arguably become the industry's premiere publisher of licensed comics (and by arguably, I mean I can hear Nicky Barrucci arguing right now) Has this always been part of your game plan, or is it something you've done to adapt to the marketplace?  What are the key business-side differences in publishing licensed books as[...]

What Does The T Grade Mean For DC Comics? 12 Saturday Runaround – What Catwoman Did Next 13 Wednesday Comics Review – DC Week Three 14 Twelve More Appearances Of The New 52 Strange Woman 15 Shocking New Poster For Human Centipede Part 2 16 Jim Shooter On Amending The Legion Of Superheroes 17 The Big Bang Theory Suits Up For[...]

Well, there doesn't appear to be any portrayal of a much loved comic character in a sexual degrading fashion. Mind you this is only the first five pages

This is the third time Marvel have revealed the cover to Uncanny X-Men #1. Once with silhouettes and once without. This is the first time we've seen the

So DC and Warners may be tieing The Big Bang Theory and the DC New 52 Relaunch together. But Disney has beaten them to it with Marvel and Castle on ABC.

A six year old HP Lovecraft piece by Francesco Francavilla, above. A new HP Lovecraft T-shirt design, available on TeeFury today only by Texan artist

I've mention the concluding page of Detective Comics and the opening sequence of Green Lantern Corps specifically, but one scene I haven't dwelt upon yet, is an early scene in Demon Knights #1. I mentioned it in the review, certainly, but it might be worth dwelling on and wondering what the relative lack of reaction[...]

Creator of popular Italian comics Zagor, River Bill and Mister No, Sergio Bonelli died earlier today. Son of Tex creator Gian Luigi Bonelli,  Sergio often wrote under the name of Guido Nolitta, to disguise his legacy in the field, as well as a female pseudonym, Annalisa Macchi But he would write many Tex stories in the[...]

Artist Francis Manapul has responded, below; On a recent blog entry discussing marriages in comics, Jim Shooter reprints a synopsis to his editor for a two part Legion Of Superheroes story, during which he says; About 30 years later, in 2007, I went back to the future and wrote the Legion of Super-Heroes again for a while[...]

John Belushi was originally cast to play Dr Peter Venkman in the movie Ghostbusters, alongside his comedy colleague on Saturday Night Live and spinoff The

TechWatch: How Steve Jobs ruined comics. BigLieWatch: Rick Veitch posts an early stab at The Big Lie, when the narrator would have been the demonic face in the dust cloud… BritWatch: Today, the Independent newspaper interviews Grant Morrison; But his contentious reputation will only build now that his radical new take on Superman has been revealed: "My[...]

Six years ago, Vertigo's hit series Fables was being developed by NBC as an ongoing TV series, but only made it to scripts. In 2008, ABC stated that they

DC's Action Comics from Morrison and Morales, Dark Horse's adaptation of Guillemoro's The Strain and Boundless' Lady Death colection celebrating twenty years of the character in December, make it onto the covers of next month's Diamond Previews. The catalogue also contains Marvel's Defenders' relaunch, as well as Villains For Hire, X-Club and whatever Cable Reborn[...]